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Maybe Konoharmaru episode won't be that bad...I just find it very irritating that they would title a whole episode with his name in it like its gonna be all him when I read the Manga it was only a short stint...

What the hell!? Did you say a few weeks? I thought it has to happen anytime now...

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And instead of trying to impose on your mind, you adjust yourself to your opponent like water pressing on an earthen wall. It flows through the slightest crack. Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing'. Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Hirofumi Suzuki? The last time he did an episode was way back during the Deidara battle, right? I wouldn't mind seeing his work again...

That being said, the new movie is being released soon, so, of course, all of the best animators and supervisors had to cut some of their duties to the series in order to help with the film. Sadly enough, though, since these current episodes and the movie were made very close together, the current episodes are lacking the much needed quality they deserve (in other words, the yearly time-table wasn't very well thought out).

Finally some (really) good news on the animation front:
- the animation director for episode 166 will be Hirofumi Suzuki. He did episodes 82 (Asuma's funeral), 85 (team 10 vs H&K) and 123 (Sasuke vs Deidara) of Shippuuden, basically most of the Shippuuden "special" episodes.
- the animation director for episode 167 will be Atsushi Wakabayashi. He has only worked on the original series before and did episode 30 (Sasuke vs Orochimaru), 71 (third hokage vs Orochimaru) and 133 (Naruto vs Sasuke at the VotE), basically most of the part 1 "special" episodes.

Spoiler for future episode spoilers...:

I know it shouldn't surprise me, but it pisses me off something fierce to see Suzuki doing the Hinata episode...

Don't get me wrong, Hinata's confession needs to be done well (the music has to be properly overseen, something the recent episodes have struggled with, and the pacing has to be just right else the entire sequence will fall apart), and Suzuki will deliver, but I sincerely hope that the episode will cover the 6-Tail emergence as well (so 437 and part of 438).

Of course, I simply did not want to get bogged down in a full flashback episode with Hinata. Though, the stabbing of the poor girl could act as either a good cliffhanger going in to 167, or, even better, a good act break, leaving the rest of 167 open for the 6-Tails appearance. Either way, fun times are ahead (can't wait to see who's will direct Chibaku Tensei, then, of course, Minato - the emotional climax of the arc (which should have probably been Suzuki, but I will definitely wait and see/hope).

Spoiler for MORE SPOILERS ABOUT 166 - DON'T OPEN IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE MANGA, YOU'LL GET CANCER:

Yeah, I expect them to pad the episode with a thousand filler flashbacks. Then they will extend the fighting scene a little, and then turn the stabbing scene into five minutes of Pain breaking every bone in Hinata's body. The episode will end with the end of 437.